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Big Data's Biggest Obstacles

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While big data offers a great promise to many organizations in its ability to allow us to see and predict human behavior objectively, there are still many challenges along the road to success. In this Harvard Business Review paper, author Alex “Sandy” Pentland names big data’s four biggest obstacles and offers excellent insight into the changes we could make to turn these obstacles into big data success.

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